Danville Math Training Follow-up

Highly Flexible, just starting to think about what an entire day will look like


8:00-8:50 Questions for teachers to answer before they come to the workshop:
  • What were my short-term literacy goals as a result of the initial workshop?
  • What were my long-term literacy goals as a result of the initial workshop?
  • Where do I sit on those goals now? Have I implemented them? Have I been unable to implement them yet? Why/why not?
  • What have I learned as a result of my implementation?
  • What are my future goals, that I bring with me to this workshop?

  • Discuss/Brainstorm goals for the day (just like last time, but I want You to be more forceful here, now that you've already had some time)

8:50-10:10 Discussion of implementation- Chart paper with catagories: Successes, Barriers and Solutions, Systematic Approach
Introduction:
  • Bring examples/pictures
    • What strategies were successful for me?
    • What was successful about those strategies?
    • How were my students able to access the information differently than they would have without the literacy component? How did that impact what I understand about how to help them experience the material? (This is a really big question that I think most teachers don't think about enough, I really want to hear from others about what this means to them because I'm not sure my description is as clear on 'paper' as it is in my head.)
    • How do I build off of those successful attempts/strategies?
    • What part of literacy do I now need to think about improving in my instruction?
    • How to build toward "my goals"?
  • Discuss attempts/success/failures
    • Barriers to success in attempts that didn’t achieve my goals
    • What caused the strategies to be less than successful?
    • What did I learn as a result of the attempt?
    • If I were to do the strategy, again, what would I do differently?
    • How do I plan to achieve my goals, now?
  • Mathematically literate classroom
    • Systemically, what do we do as a department to make our students better communicators of mathematics?
    • What literacy patterns do we see developing that we can build off of? Act on?
    • How can we test the effectiveness of the strategies?
    • What type of writing are students doing?
    • How do we support their success here?

10, 8, 8 minutes for each rotation with 8 minutes for synthesis of each rotation
Synthesis of discussion

10:10-10:20 Break

10:20-11:30 Next steps for successes and initial looks at planning






After lunch: New learning to explore: Example of integrating literacy in a polynomial equation learning experience.
Work through the scenario, with a focus on how to develop student input, student understanding, student communication. (Just an idea)